Recent News from the Research Data Archive

News includes outages, dataset updates and corrections, and general advice.

NSF NCAR HPC Maintenance July 22

July 22, 2025


Update 7 PM MDT July 22: data access and file download have been restored. Thank you for your patience during …

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RDA data requests and downloads unavailable February 11–12, 2025

Feb. 11, 2025


Due to scheduled maintenance on the NSF NCAR HPC system, the following RDA data services will be unavailable starting 8 …

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RDA Services Unavailable September 16–19, 2024

Sept. 12, 2024


Due to scheduled maintenance on the NCAR HPC system, the following RDA data services will be unavailable starting 7 AM …

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THREDDS legacy dataset IDs deprecated; decommissioned end of year 2024

Aug. 6, 2024


The legacy naming scheme for dataset ids, 'dsxxx.x' have now been deprecated in the RDAs THREDDS Data Server. While …

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New RDA dataset numbering system

July 26, 2024


Update on July 31, 2024: standard data file download, THREDDS access, and Globus transfer services have been restored. We continue …

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